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Plumeria pudica

COMMON NAME

Bridal bouquet or Fiddle leaf plumeria

TYPE

​Shrub

FAMILY

Apocynaceae

NOTES

A shrub which usually has slender upright trunks that branch close to the ground forming a dense slightly spreading crown. Leaves are dark green and unique fiddle-shaped, or spoon-shaped. Large clusters of bright white 3 inch flowers with small yellow centers cover this tree as a beautiful bouquet, hence the common name. The flowers are not fragrant.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION

Panama, Colombia and Venezuela.

NATIVE HABITAT

Coastal thickets and limestone forests at low elevations

WEB SOURCES

wikipedia.org

flowersofindia.net

ctahr.hawaii.edu



Plumeria pudica